Patents Issued in July 4, 2002
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Publication number: 20020083659Abstract: An intermediate anchorage for a post-tension system including an anchor member, a tendon extending through an interior passageway of the anchor and a sleeve formed of a heat shrink material and extending over the unsheathed portion of the tendon. The sleeve is affixed in heat sealed compressive contact with a surface of the anchor member and with an exterior surface of the sheathed portion so as to maintain the unsheathed portion in a liquid-tight environment. The sleeve can be a tubular member, a split tubular member or a wrapping material. The anchor member is an encapsulated anchor having a tubular extension extending outwardly therefrom such that the sleeve is secured in sealed compressive contact with the tubular extension.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2000Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Felix L. Sorkin
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Publication number: 20020083660Abstract: A connector 20 for quickly and easily connecting an anchor strap 50 having an upper end 52 and a lower end 56 to a sidewall bracket 73 of a manufactured home 70; the sidewall bracket 70 having an elongate horizonal slot 77. Connector 20 includes a central portion 22 including means 44 for connecting strap 50. An attachment portion 30, including a neck 31 and a head 34, is adapted to be maneuverable for easy attachment to slot 77. Attached connector 20 is pivotable about an axis substantially perpendicular to an attached tensioned strap 50. A connector assembly 10 includes strap 50 already attached to connector 20. The method of using connector assembly 10 includes attaching strap 50 to an anchor 80.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2002Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: James Oliver, Evon L. Oliver
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Publication number: 20020083661Abstract: A reduced frontage garage configured to accommodate a plurality of motor vehicles. This garage includes a door that is insufficiently wide to accommodate entry of the entire plurality of vehicles in parallel side-by-side relation. The garage also includes a flared interior garage enclosure configured to allow the vehicles to pass through the door sequentially and stop in a substantially radial parking arrangement within the garage in which adjacent vehicles are parked at acute angles to each other. This substantially radial parking arrangement allows each vehicle to pass through the door and park in a designated parking space while veering the vehicle to at most one side of its orientation of straight travel. The building may also include a carport adjacent to the reduced frontage garage and accessible from a common driveway. The radial parking area may also be bifurcated by a building structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Walter Krauth
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Publication number: 20020083662Abstract: A building construction having a ventilated wall drainage system is provided. The building includes a roof with a plurality of roof vents therein, a soffit, an attic space and an exterior wall construction. The wall construction includes an exterior wall covered with sheathing. The sheathing is in turn covered by insulation having a plurality of generally vertical channels therein which permit air to flow through the channels between the insulation and the sheathing of the exterior wall. The soffit is provided with a passage which is in communication with the channels in the insulation. Air is continually drawn through the channels in the wall construction, through the passage in the soffit and into the attic space to provide constant ventilation for the wall construction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2000Publication date: July 4, 2002Applicant: Cobblestone Construction Finishes, Inc.Inventor: Dick A. Burton
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Publication number: 20020083663Abstract: The rigid, generally planar, rectangular first sheet, at least one rigid sheet spacer mounted along, so as to protrude from, a first long edge of the first sheet, and a generally “U”-shaped first channel formed along a second long edge of the first sheet, where the second long edge is opposite the first long edge. The first channel opens towards the sheet spacer so as to define a cavity therebetween and along the length of the first sheet. The first channel is sized so as to fit over, as an end cap on, an exposed long edge of a door frame member such as a door jamb or a center frame member of for example a double width door when so fitted, a distal side wall of the first channel, distal from the first sheet, is mated to a first side of the exposed long edge of the door frame member. The first channel includes a channel spacer protruding into the cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2002Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Michael Alexander Ballantyne
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Publication number: 20020083664Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the implementation of Civil Engineering works, swimming pools and water tanks in particular, and to means for its implementation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Joel Queirel
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Publication number: 20020083665Abstract: An angular section member for making wall corners comprises a metal sheet material having a given thickness and size, which is bent so as to provide a desired section member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2002Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Geom Vladimiro Razetto
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Publication number: 20020083666Abstract: A coping or fascia assembly for a flat or raised building roof edge, parapet wall, cant dam, gravel stop or the like resiliently maintains the coping or fascia assembly in a tight-fitting interlocking installation and has a locator member beneath the coping or fascia cap for maintaining at least a portion of the outer coping cap in a predetermined cross-sectional shape and in an accurate alignment between adjacent sections of the coping cap. The locator member has a free-floating side edge in order to allow it to yield during installation of the coping or fascia cap. The preferred triangular locator member is generally symmetrical with respect to a line normal to the face of the wall, dam stop or other raised roof protrusion. The coping assembly is quicker, easier, and less costly to install than prior such structures and provides enhanced protection for interior or underlying components or structures.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: William C. Webb, Neil Tedder, Christopher K. McCoy, David McKinney
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Publication number: 20020083667Abstract: A marking system incorporated into a suspended grid structure supporting a plurality of ceiling tiles. A first plurality of main runners are suspending from a ceiling by hanger wires and in parallel, spaced apart and elongated extending fashion. Each of the main runners defines, in cross section, a tile support lip and a web extending from the support lip. A plurality of elongated channels are formed through first and second opposite faces of the main runner web at axially spaced apart intervals and between a first end and a second end. A second plurality of cross runners extend between the main runners and each also defines in cross section a tile support lip and a web extending in substantially perpendicular fashion from a midpoint of the support lip.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: William Paul, Carol Paul
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Publication number: 20020083668Abstract: A marking system incorporated into a cross runner for use in a suspended grid structure extending within a walled enclosure, the grid structure supporting a plurality of ceiling tiles. A plurality of main runners are suspended from a ceiling of the enclosure in parallel, spaced apart and elongated extending fashion. Each of the main runners define, in cross section, a tile support lip and a web extending from the support lip, a plurality of elongated channels further being formed through first and second opposite faces of the web at axially spaced apart intervals and between first and second ends. A plurality of interconnecting wall angles are secured to selected surfaces of the walled enclosure, each of the wall angles having an elongated body which includes, in cross section, a first side and a second side extending from an interconnecting edge with the first side.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: William Paul, Carol Paul
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Publication number: 20020083669Abstract: A measurement indicia scheme applied to a main runner of a suspended grid structure to establish a correct border distance of the main runner and between an associated wall angle and interconnecting cross runners. The main runner defines, in cross section, a tile support lip, a web extending from the support lip, and a plurality of elongated channels being formed through first and second opposite faces of the web at axially spaced apart intervals and between a first end and a second end. The measurement indicia scheme is applied to the main runner and extends from at least one of the first and second ends of the runner. The indicia scheme coincides with the placement and location of at least a first of the elongated channels positioned relative the selected and main runner end. The indicia scheme further establishes a defined distance from a second and succeeding elongated channel positioned along the main runner.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: William Paul
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Publication number: 20020083671Abstract: An improved mould resistant gypsum wall board for use in constructing walls is disclosed. The wall board comprises a water resistant gypsum core having opposite first and second surfaces, the first and second surfaces of the gypsum core being covered by a non-biodegradable structural mat, a plastic sheet bonded to the structural mat cover of the first surface by a bonding agent, the bonding agent being made of a non-biodegradable adhesive. The structural mat is preferably made of fiberglass and the bonding agent preferably consists of an aqueous solution of a plasticizer, ethylene vinyl acetate and an acetate copolymer. The plastic sheet is preferably made of vinyl and contains an anti-biotic chemical agent selected to inhibit the growth of mould.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2000Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Arne Clausen, Bryce Clark
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Publication number: 20020083672Abstract: The invention relates to a metal ceiling panel having flange portions with complementary engagement areas formed such that two juxtaposed panels can be interconnected in a tight manner. The shape of the flange portions corresponds to the contour of an inclined S whereby the joint between two such panels becomes even tighter in the event of a substantial increase of the temperature in the space below the ceiling panel. The shape of the flange portions also brigs about an increased stability of an underside covering for a ceiling formed by a plurality of such panels when exposed to a fire.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Johnny Ostenfeldt
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Publication number: 20020083673Abstract: A parquet board with a groove and tongue edge profile comprising a projecting tongue (14) on at least one edge of each parquet board (10,12) and a receding groove (16) on at least one opposite edge of the parquet board. The top edge of the tongue (14) is provided with a projecting locking lip (24) running in the longitudinal direction of the tongue, and there is a corresponding locking recess (26) running in the longitudinal direction of the groove in the bottom edge of the groove-boundary-forming top groove cheek (28).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Volker Kettler, Bernd Schneider, Wolfgang Wienstroer
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Publication number: 20020083674Abstract: A web connector, a building component connection and a method for connecting a first building component to a second building component. One embodiment of the web connector includes a rib member that is attachable to a web portion of the first building component and an attachment plate extending outward from the rib member. The rib member may be sized so that it is received on a leg portion that protrudes from the web portion of the first building component. The attachment plate is attachable to an attachment flange of the second building component. In another embodiment, the web connector includes two rib members and an attachment member that forms two plates for attaching two additional building components thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Douglas A. Rassel
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Publication number: 20020083675Abstract: A new hub element is disclosed for building reversible expandable three-dimensional truss structures. The hub element can directly connect a pin joint towards the center of a scissor linkage to a pivot located near the extremity of another out-of-plane scissor linkage. It has the advantages of being more compact than previously known hub elements and can be used to create foldable structures that are more structurally sound than previously possible. The use of this novel hub element can also reduce the number of pieces required for a given foldable structure, thereby reducing manufacturing and assembly costs.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Charles Hoberman
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Publication number: 20020083676Abstract: This invention is a mechanical connection for structural wood whereby forces are transferred from one piece to the next by shear friction. Members are placed side-to-side or otherwise in contact along a common friction surface at the point of connection. Shear friction strength is obtained by applying a clamping force, generally perpendicular to the plane of friction, by one or more tightened steel bolts with large washers. The addition of a medium at each friction plane is required to obtain a reliable friction connection. This medium is a thin flat solid material having deformations of sufficient size as to engage the clamping force, even after large volume changes in the wood, such as a thin metal plate with teeth or plugs projecting from both faces or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2000Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Brian Joseph Rudie
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Publication number: 20020083677Abstract: The present invention relates to a bracket for securing collector flight support tracks that are used in sludge collectors. The mounting bracket is suitable for use with various types of support track configurations. The mounting bracket is part of an assembly that is adjustable and includes a pair of unitary molded hubs and a connecting member that extends between the pair of hubs. The hubs are preferably constructed so as to facilitate being mounted in one of a number of alternative positions on a wall of a collector tank or to be secured to a variety of commonly used collector flight support tracks.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Applicant: United States Filter CorporationInventors: Jeffery L. Nordland, Susan M. Rasmussen
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Publication number: 20020083678Abstract: Compressive and tensile structural elements are disclosed having an enclosure with walls surrounding a cavity. A non-compressible material is disposed in the cavity. The walls are shaped such that a force tending to compress or elongate the element by a first deflection causes an amplified second deflection of the walls into the non-compressible material. The second deflection exerts a compressive force against the non-compressible material, resulting in a resistance to the first deflection and the force tending to compress or elongate the structural element. The walls of the elements are configured for optimum rigidity and/or optimum damping. Structural beams and motion impartation devices utilizing the structural elements to provide lightweight rigidity and/or damping are also disclosed. Another aspect of the present invention are methods of fabricating the structural beams.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Jahangir S. Rastegar
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Publication number: 20020083679Abstract: An apparatus, method and kit for dustless repair of a damaged wallboard. The apparatus having an insertion rod which engages a patching element and an insertion brace for inserting the patching element and insertion brace through a hole in the wallboard and adhering the patching element to an inner surface of the wallboard. A dustless method is then provided for patching the hole without producing any environmentally harmful dust. The kit includes all necessary materials for repairing a hole in the wallboard using the dustless method according to this invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2000Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Charles Hanner
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Publication number: 20020083680Abstract: An apparatus for regulating the flow of articles from an infeed stream at an infeed end of a packaging machine which apparatus comprises a plurality of article feed lanes for supplying a row of articles converging at a predetermined position, each feed lane having a regulator to control article flow, one of said regulators providing a reference position by which the relative positions of the articles may be controlled such that as the lanes converge one row of articles is offset from the or each other rows of articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Philippe Duperray, Joel Mennetrat, Pierre Genty
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Publication number: 20020083681Abstract: A hermetically sealed package for food items, such as loaves of processed cheese, employing plastic film with serrated ends and an accessible tear strip, which together provide points of focus for easy opening of the package without unwanted tearing or undesirable contamination of the food item. A process for forming this package also forms part of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Kenneth Fahs, David Sullivan, Michael Nooyen
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Publication number: 20020083682Abstract: An aseptic filling system receives preformed containers through an intake sanitizing lock into a closed system. The containers move through sanitizing and sterilizing zones to a filling and closure zone. Filled containers exit the system through a discharge sanitizing lock. Both intake and discharge sanitizing locks are subjected to flooding with sterilant each time a container enters or leaves the system and provide a seal to prevent the entry of airborne contaminants or micro-organisms when the locks are opened.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Applicant: N. E. CONSULTING SERVICES, LLCInventors: Nicholas Paul Edwards, Jacqueline M. Edwards
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Publication number: 20020083683Abstract: An apparatus for vacuum packaging a continuous packaged body of the invention is so constructed that a seal bar 35 and a seal table 36 are mounted in the respective skirt parts 39, 40 of seal blocks 22, 23 opposite to each other with a tube film 20 interposed between them, and in the case of nipping the tube film 20 by both seal blocks 22, 23 plural intermittent teeth 44. 45 spot close the tube film on the inner sides of both skirt parts as one points in the transfer direction of a material to be packaged. Simultaneously, in ports 47 of the face of a standing gap 46 formed thin along the outsides of the above intermittent teeth, the tube film is flared by vacuum suction force, and from the section of the tube film cut by forcing a cutting edge 51 in the seal bar into a receiving groove 52 cut in the seal table, the air in the tube film is sucked through the spot closing gap and the receiving groove 52.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Tadoru Suga
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Publication number: 20020083684Abstract: Device for filling sacks (1), comprising at least one filler material metering device (2), a feeding hopper (3) and a sealing tab folder (5), whereinType: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Werner Schlosser
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Publication number: 20020083685Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a heating device which is capable of generating heat when exposed to oxygen. The heat generating element comprises activated carbon and iron is used to generate an exothermic oxidation reaction within the heating device. Introducing an oxidation inhibitor during the manufacturing process allows the manufacturing of the device to take place in ambient atmospheric conditions. The present invention also includes a loading facilitator which allows the heat generating medium to be more easily and efficiently loaded into the heat generating device. When appropriate, the oxidation inhibitor and loading facilitator can be removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 1999Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: JIE ZHANG, HAO ZHANG, LARRY RIGBY, WADE A. HULL
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Publication number: 20020083686Abstract: An apparatus for sealing fluid containing vessels comprising a sheet of elastomer forming a sealing member having a top and bottom surface, and disposed on a plate containing a plurality of wells for storing fluids. A product that can seal the wells of a multiwell plate, and has the aspects of being vapor resistant, heat sealable, and able to be manipulated by automated analytical equipment. The sealing material is constituted of an elastomer made of synthetic rubber and a layer, comprising a polymer film or a foil attached to one side of the elastomer to form a vapor barrier. The combination of these elements produces a sealing mat that couples the barrier properties of the polymer film or foil with the sealing properties of the elastomer septum.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Deborah C. Audino, Gregory R. Martin
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Publication number: 20020083687Abstract: An envelope stripping apparatus is disclosed for opening and holding open the flaps of envelopes or mail processed in a mailing machine or other envelope-processing machine. The flaps of the envelopes are held down against a vacuum plenum during transport of the envelope. The envelopes are fed along the feeding path towards a moistening device while the flap is stripped and held by the vacuum plenum. An arrangement of the plenum apertures is such that stiffer portions of the flaps have more vacuum applied than those that are of lesser area, or at the extreme end of the flap. A second arrangement of the envelope flaps will cause additional holding of the end of the flap if it is a larger envelope with a greater area at the end such as a square flap.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2000Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Franklin J. Buckley, Christopher D. Clark, Robert P. Rebres, Kenneth A. Schulz, Steven A. Supron
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Publication number: 20020083688Abstract: The present invention proposes a plastic film guiding device of a packaging machine, which comprises a frame, a screw rod, a walking block, a positioning rod, a pair of slanting rods, and a pair of slide bodies. The plastic film guiding device of the present invention is arranged in suspended way to reduce its contact with the surface of a machine table so that the present invention suffers less heat to facilitate the adjustment. Most importantly, the present invention has instant width-adjusting function, and can simultaneously perform identical adjustments to the widths of both sides. The adjustment is fast, and the positions of movement are exact. Moreover, fine adjustment of width can be performed at any time during the operation of the machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Chang Min Yang
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Publication number: 20020083689Abstract: The invention is related to a strapping device (1) for the strapping of an object (14) with a strapping tape (5). The strapping device (1) comprises a means of guidance (3) for guiding a strapping tape (5), which serves for the purpose of forming a loop of strapping tape (5) in a waiting position. The formation of the loop takes place independently of the position of the object to be strapped (14). The strapping device (1) furthermore comprises a means for movement of the loop (4). This means serves for positioning the loop of strapping tape (5) formed by the means of guidance (3) from the waiting position into a stacking position around an object (14) to be strapped, after this object has been positioned on a work surface (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Applicant: Ferag AGInventor: Erwin Muller
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Publication number: 20020083690Abstract: The invention relates to a dust filter bag having a highly porous backing material ply and to a method for producing the dust filter bagType: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Applicant: FiberMark Gessner GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Dietmar Emig, Ernst Raabe, Albrecht Klimmek
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Publication number: 20020083691Abstract: An oil filter device of smoke exhaust including a smoke collecting funnel, a fan and a filter device. The filter device includes an upright hollow casing in which a frame assembly is disposed. A filter mesh is disposed along the circumference of the frame assembly. The outer circumference and the inner circumference of the casing define therebetween a venting space. The smoke gets into the frame assembly and passes through the filter mesh into the venting space and then is exhausted from a perforated section of the casing so as to filter off the oil.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2000Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Li-Lin Chang
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Publication number: 20020083692Abstract: The invention provides a filter apparatus for removing air entrained particles comprising a pleated filter media. A first media member has a plurality of alternating upstream and downstream folds and a wall connecting the folds. A pair of slits forms an aperture and a hinged pleat. A second media member matingly attaches to the first media member.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2000Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: C. Shaun Richerson, Robert Andreae
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Publication number: 20020083693Abstract: The invention is a component kit allowing a user to removably attach a gasoline engine weed trimmer to a push-type deck lawnmower allowing a user to activate the weed trimmer during the mowing of a yard to trim areas beside the mower while mowing the yard, eliminating duplicate effort and also to relieve the stress of carrying the weed trimmer, the component kit placing the vertical weight of the weed trimmer on the lawnmower.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Bruce R. Smith
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Publication number: 20020083694Abstract: A mower unit of a grass cutting machine has at least two blades. The left blade is rotatable clockwise, while the right blade is rotatable counterclockwise. A grass discharge passage is formed between the two blades. An endless rotational belt for transmitting drive to the two blades is offset forwardly in a region between the blades, thereby forming, between the blades, a space without the endless rotational. The grass discharge passage has an upper surface inclined rearwardly and upwardly to extend from a position forwardly of a pair of pulleys corresponding to the two blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Nagai, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Mikio Yuki, Hiroshi Oshima, Masatake Murakawa, Hiroshi Kawabata
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Publication number: 20020083695Abstract: An apparatus for automatic adjustment of a transfer device on an agricultural harvesting machine includes at least one sensor for determining the current position of the transfer device; means for adjustment of the transfer device; at least one navigation device located in the harvesting machine for determination of a first and at least a second navigated position of the harvesting machine in a field; and an electronic analyzer wherein the electronic analyzer automatically adjusts the transfer device through the means for adjustment as a function of the current position of the transfer device and the first and second navigated positions of the harvesting machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Applicant: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Willi Behnke, Norbert Diekhans, Jochen Huster, Gunnar Quincke
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Publication number: 20020083696Abstract: A mowing machine includes a vehicle body (1), a mower unit (4) connected to and supported by the vehicle body and having flow generating members driven by power supplied thereto for generating grass carrier air flows, a grass catcher (6) disposed at a rear end of the vehicle body and defining an opening for receiving grass clippings, a grass transport duct (17) for guiding grass clippings transported by the carrier air flows to the grass catcher, and a moving mechanism (5) for moving the grass catcher between a collecting position for connecting the grass catcher to the grass transport duct and a discharge position for separating the grass catcher from the grass transport duct. A power cutoff mechanism (11, 100) is provided for stopping power supply to the mower unit in response to a movement caused by the moving mechanism of the grass catcher from the collecting position to the discharge position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Komorida, Takashi Fujii, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Yoshio Tomiyama
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Publication number: 20020083697Abstract: A spinning device is provided in which at least one sliver is opened to single fibers and the single fibers are deposited on a moveable collecting surface in the form of a spread out fiber veil. During transport on the collecting surface, the fiber veil is condensed transversely to its direction of movement to a fiber strand. The now roving-like fiber strand is transported through a nipping line and twisted to a thread by a twisting nozzle. On the side facing away from the fiber veil, a suction opening is arranged at the perforated collecting surface, one side edge of said suction opening extending in the direction of movement of the collecting surface while the other side edge is arranged hereto at an acute angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventor: Fritz Stahlecker
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Publication number: 20020083698Abstract: In an improved system for recovering heat from a combustion gas produced by burning wastes, the combustion gas or combustible gas produced by partial burning of the wastes subjected to dust filtration in a temperature range of 450-650° C. at a filtration velocity of 1-5 cm/sec under a pressure of from −5 kPa (gage) to 5 MPa before heat recovery is effected. The dust filtration is preferably performed using a filter medium which may or may not support a denitration catalyst. Heat recovery is preferably effected using a steam superheater. The dust-free gas may partly or wholly be reburnt with or without an auxiliary fuel to a sufficiently high temperature to permit heat recovery. The combustion furnace may be a gasifying furnace which, in turn, may be combined with a melting furnace.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Norihisa Miyoshi, Shosaku Fujinami, Tetsuhisa Hirose, Masaaki Irie, Kazuo Takano, Takahiro Oshita
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Publication number: 20020083699Abstract: For a process for the catalytic conversion of fuel for removing oxides of nitrogen from exhaust gases of internal combustion engines, in which fuel and a part-stream of the exhaust gas or of the intake air are converted in a converter, the fuel and the part-stream of the exhaust gas or of the intake air are fed separately from one another into the converter and the fuel is vaporized in the converter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Michael Bender, Signe Unverricht
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Publication number: 20020083700Abstract: In a two-stage concept for supercharging of internal combustion engines, in which the first stage is performed by an exhaust-gas turbocharger and the second stage by an electrically driven compressor, the compressor is also used to provide the secondary air used for the heating of a catalytic converter. In this manner, the catalytic converter quickly reaches an efficient operating temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Dietmar Ellmer, Jorg Neugartner
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Publication number: 20020083701Abstract: There is provided a compression ignition type engine comprising an exhaust gas purification catalyst, and an electric motor for generating an output separated from the engine output. The engine may selectively perform a first control to make the engine output an output larger than that determined on the basis of the engine operation state, and a second control to operate the engine under the first combustion mode in which the inert gas amount in the chamber is larger than that in which the soot generation amount is peak.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kohei Igarashi, Shizuo Sasaki, Hiroki Murata
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Publication number: 20020083702Abstract: An exhaust control system for a cylinder fuel injection engine having a cylinder injection injectors directly injecting a fuel into combustion chambers and a catalytic converter provided in an exhaust passage from said combustion chambers for purifying an exhaust gas, air/fuel ratio in the combustion chambers is periodically made rich for quicken activation of catalytic converter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2002Publication date: July 4, 2002Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoichi Iihoshi, Minoru Ohsuga, Toshiharu Nogi, Takuya Shiraishi, Noboru Tokuyasu
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Publication number: 20020083703Abstract: A manifold arrangement for exhaust systems of internal combustion engines, especially multi-cylinder motorcycle engines, for installation between the exhaust gas outlet pipes from the or each cylinder and at least one muffler is configured such that the exhaust gas outlet pipes of the cylinders are combined stepwise, if applicable, so as to finally form one joint pipe where behind the joint pipe a branch is provided that divides the exhaust gas flow into at least two pipes which are separated from each other, are parallel in a flow-wise manner and together having a larger cross-sectional surface than the joint pipe and behind the pipes, parallel a joining element is provided again so as to form one single collector pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Andreas Werth, Christian Skorianz
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Publication number: 20020083704Abstract: A pneumatic oil pump has a cylinder, a piston, a pedal and an oil reservoir. The cylinder has a central bore, a sealed front end and a sealed rear end. An air connector is mounted in a cover on the front end of the cylinder. An actuating valve is mounted in the cover on the front end of the cylinder and communicating with the air connector and the central bore of the cylinder. The piston is movably mounted in the bore of the cylinder to divide the central bore of the cylinder into a first chamber and a second chamber. A piston seat is attached to the piston at an end facing the rear end of the cylinder. A ventilative, sound-absorbing material is arranged between the air outlets of the piston and the piston seat. By such an arrangement, the shock of the air flow can be absorbed by the ventilative, sound absorbing material. Therefore, noise and shock will not occur when the pneumatic pump is in operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Applicant: Tai E International Patent and Law OfficeInventor: Ta-Chin Wang
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Publication number: 20020083705Abstract: The tapping circuit forms part of a main fluid circuit which comprises a hydraulic motor having a preferred operating direction and at least two main pipes suitable for communicating with the cylinder block of the motor and constituting respectively, in said preferred operating direction, a feed main pipe and a discharge main pipe. The tapping circuit comprises a single tapping and removal valve connected continuously via a tapping pipe to that one of said main pipes which, in the preferred direction, serves for discharge purposes. This valve serves to replenish the fluid so as to cool it and/or to flush the internal space of the casing of the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Louis Bigo, Jean-Claude Case, Jacques Fontaine, Jean-Pierre Lebrun, Gilles Lemaire, Gilbert Mahe, Alain Mangano, Jean-Noel Pogneau, Jean-Philippe Raisin, Vincent Siquier, Patrick Wasielewski
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Publication number: 20020083707Abstract: A hydrostatic transaxle assembly is drivingly connected to a power source and the power source is activated through an electric starter circuit. The hydrostatic transaxle includes an axial type hydrostatic transmission module having a pump which includes a plurality of axially arranged cylinders each including a piston therein. A tiltable swash plate includes a lateral surface rotatable within the hydrostatic transmission casing. The swash plate is in engagement with the plurality of pistons wherein tilting of the swash plate effectuates fluid displacement of the pump. A neutral switch is fixed relative to the transmission casing and includes a registering portion engaged with the swash plate to detect a neutral position and correspondingly allow starting of an electric starter through the starter circuit. A neutral adjustment assembly includes a control rod rotatably supported by the casing and a two piece shift lever is attached thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Kevin L. Johnson, Richard T. Ruebusch
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Publication number: 20020083708Abstract: We prove that we can get sustainable clean energy by taking advantage of electric energy created by buoyancy of cylindrical, spherical elliptical drum which has several light density gases in it, put in liquid by fixed axis. We can give outer energy by buoyancy solids in water tube. We can reform it by microwave irradiation thermoeffect. We can create thermoenergy, can transfer electric generating power.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Buhei Kono, Kazuhito Kono
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Publication number: 20020083709Abstract: A master cylinder of the present invention comprises a cylinder having one end open to the outside. A secondary piston guide ring, a sleeve and a primary piston guide ring are adapted to be fitted in this order into the cylinder from the one open end. A piston is slidable fitted in an axial direction of the cylinder, into each of the secondary piston guide ring, the sleeve and the primary piston guide ring. A retaining means is provided at the open end of the cylinder, and adapted to abut against the primary piston guide ring and prevent escape of the primary piston guide ring from the cylinder. An elastic member is provided between a rearward end portion of the sleeve and a forward end portion of the primary piston guide ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Tomonori Mouri, Takato Ogiwara, Hiromi Ando, Naganori Koshimizu
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Publication number: 20020083710Abstract: A molecular motor in which multiple concentric cylinders (or nested cones) rotate around a common longitudinal axis. Opposing complementary surfaces of the cylinders or cones are coated with complementary motor protein pairs (such as actin and myosin). The actin and myosin interact with one another in the presence of ATP to rotate the cylinders or cones relative to one another, and this rotational energy is harnessed to produce work. The concentration of ATP and the number of nested cylinders or cones can be used to control the rotational speed of the motor. The length of the cylinders can also be used to control the power generated by the motor. In another embodiment, the molecular motor includes at least two annular substrates wherein one annular substrate is coated with a first motor protein and the other annular substrate is coated with a second motor protein. The first and second motor proteins interact with each other to move the second annular relative to the first annular substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2002Publication date: July 4, 2002Applicant: The Government of the U S A, as represented by the Secretary of the Dept. of Health & Human ServiceInventors: Thomas D. Schneider, Ilya Gennadiyevich Lyakhov